The nvidia proprietary driver compiled without problems or warnings.
I have no idea how to make a pet of the Proprietary Nvidia driver,
sorry.

EDIT: I changed the 2 lines in the xorg.conf that 01micko suggests in the next message and it fixed a problem with taking screenshots of video.
Also, the vlc sfs from racy works in Precise, at least if does with the proprietary nvidia driver installed.

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As you can see there is a bug in report-video (for a long time) where vesa is reported, radeon is actually loaded.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log attached.

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Tested heavy encryption on doing a save, worked fine.
Ethernet was not persistant, due to that I have 2 ethernet cards I suspect. It was auto detected on first boot (onboard forcedeth) but on next boot I had nothing, but the forcedeth was assigned "eth1". The pci realtek was eth0. Don't know which was assigned which at initial boot (no save).
Played most video and audio formats I have, including 3gp.
Loaded Libreoffice-3.5.4 (prepared in slacko) and it worked fine.
Images- png, jpeg, svg seem fine.

One point of note, I only have a browser open and there seem to be a lot of cpu cycles (xload). . Slacko and FatDog barely move xload unless I'm compiling. CPU temperature is up about 5 degrees.

Geany has "funny" colors in screens with 16 bit depth.
I remember having seen some comment on Pemasu's Precise but no solution.
Even if you get new color schemes for geany, the problem persists.
Googling for it, looks like an Ubuntu problem though I came across a likely bug in Fedora 17.
Anyone has any idea?

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_________________Kids all over the world go around with an XO laptop. They deserve one puppy (or many) too Last edited by mavrothal on Mon 04 Jun 2012, 02:12; edited 1 time in total

3. Is there a pet somewhere for VLC media player for Precise or do I have to wait till I get a new drive and can compile it myself?

Does it need to be a .pet? I am testing the latest Precise Puppy beta now and have loaded Billtoo's .sfs VLC and it seems to be working.
EDIT - Or maybe not, audio seems jittery but this is now on a different machine. Anyone else tried it?

I have the integrated RS880G graphics. With Precise B1 it is still nearly as broken as it was previously.

On first boot, dri and glx are disabled by xorg.conf, which is just as well because, with KMS enabled, Xorg has a fatal error and aborts without loading the keyboard.

On selecting Radeon in xorgwizard, xorg won't start because there are no driver modules for it to load, in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers. So it is necessary to copy them over from the driver backup folder.

With KMS disabled the Radeon R600 driver will load to the point where 2D acceleration is enabled, but AIGLX has various errors.

AIGLX falls back to using LLVM software rasteriser, which also has an error and falls back to using swrast.

Also there is no modesetting because KMS is disabled, and R600 does not support userspace modesetting.

So adding LLVM did allow the loading of xorg to complete, but nowhere near the right answer.

I'm not a linux expert but I have been investigating this by reference to Fatdog 600a2 where the Radeon R600 configures itself correctly on the same motherboard.

The fatal error with KMS enabled is:

Code:

[ 13.257] (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a version mismatch.
[dri] This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0,
[dri] but the kernel reports a version of 2.12.0.[dri] Make sure your module is loaded prior to starting X, and
[dri] that this driver was built with support for KMS.
[dri] Aborting.

I did find a bug report filed for Arch for this error, and the opinion was that it was related to the version of xf86-video-ati/radeon and they had fixed it by reverting to an earlier version. But I don't think it was conclusive.

Precise has 6.14.99 git 20111219
Fatdog has 6.14.4 which was released on 28th March 2012.

I can't find any sign of updates for Ubuntu, but there are from Debian. But they are compiled for xorg 1.12, so I couldn't try them.

The other difference that I noticed was the that output from

Code:

dmesg | grep drm

reports a different radeon version: 1.33.0 for Precise and 2.13.0 for Fatdog.

Earlier I compiled qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.2.tar.gz and made
pets of it.

The new2dir script worked great, it used to take up to 2 hours to make
the qt pets but only took a few minutes this time.

I also compiled the latest snapshot of QupZilla which is a QT web
browser.

I may make an sfs file of the qt482 pets + Umplayer + QupZilla later and upload I can upload it if you want it Barry?

Going to watch golf for a few hours now

EDIT:After using this for a while I find the nouveau driver works pretty well, not as fast as the proprietary driver but the skin tones in videos at cnn.com aren't purple and nexuiz plays well too.
I put an sfs together as well which has VLC,Umplayer, and QupZilla in it.

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peebee...
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sszindian wrote:
Downloaded peebee's previous patch: 'precise_broadcom_experiment-3.pet' for the previous version of Precise that worked for me... Bingo... Worked again for 5.2.58 and am posting from WiFi now.
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After a good workout with WiFi last evening, WiFi still works however, getting a lot of 'drops' from the Internet with it... you were right, it's not quite the way it should be!!!!!

peebee...
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sszindian wrote:
Downloaded peebee's previous patch: 'precise_broadcom_experiment-3.pet' for the previous version of Precise that worked for me... Bingo... Worked again for 5.2.58 and am posting from WiFi now.
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After a good workout with WiFi last evening, WiFi still works however, getting a lot of 'drops' from the Internet with it... you were right, it's not quite the way it should be!!!!!

commands run on your system - this will give the hardware IDs for your wifi adapter. If your adapter does not include 14e4 for the manufacturer then its not Broadcom. Replace your manufacturer ID for 14e4 in the second command to get more information. Is your device in this list?

requests :
- in http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=puppy puppy is based on i386 ? or is it i486 ?
- can you add a small chess game (eg xboard ?)
- can you add a small card game (poker ) ?
- is Ayttm a dead project ? alternatives ?
- can you add you2pup ?

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